Praise the lord, it's working!

I am thrilled to say my I've got the first few pages finally working. What a pain in the bum that was! Turns out my code was fine. Timmy the whizz figured out that the problem was actually with my netbeans. It couldn't find my servlet ( even though it was there, in the right place) so Timmy showed me how to connect it manually and then the xml file had to be manually updated. Whew! I owe you a pint Timmy. As it stands now, I have my 'login' and 'register new user' function working. I can't even begin to describe what a relief it is to say that. Now, on to the next step.

Presentation is over :)

I had my prototype presentation today at 12 and all seemed to go ok. It was a pity that I didn't have the login fixed in time but they were pretty understanding about the fact that its a simple, if not rediculously annoying problem and I should figure it out soon. All the code is there to prove it! They seemed pretty pleased with my progress and are now just willing me to get it done in time. Design-wise, pat loves the logo and the general feel so I'm totally chuffed about that. A weight has been lifted ( and replaced with a different one). Now we're into the home stretch. Lord help me....

At Denise's request...

D-day!

Demonstration of our "working prototype" is on Thursday and you can almost taste the panic in the lab. They neglected to tell us that we had to present our work in front of the entire year which is an added pressure, can't say I'm very impressed by the idea. At the moment I'm trying to do the best I can to get as much as possible together for then. Tomorrow I continue with my login and registration WHICH I WILL GET WORKING! (breathe Sarah, breathe). I also must start putting together my storyboard and get my flow chart printed up fo the lecturers. Oh the fun.... Forget biscuits, I'm giving up sleep for lent.

Ugh....

Rag week is over, my head is sore and I have much to do. I am still having trouble with my login. at this stage i'm just fully convinced that Java is having a great big laugh at my expense. It worked fine for my practical but appears to be unwilling to cooperate with me these days. Booooooo!

Aaaawwww yeah...

here's a snap shot of the generated xml. It is displayed in the bottom textbox.

Flyer...

Forgot to chuck this one in with the rest. I'll be back soon with the final batch!

Touchscreen

I brought my touchscreen back into college to give Pat a chance to view what the application would look like. She seemed pretty pleased with how the viewer works with the touchscreen techology (as am I). A step closer it may seem...

Webby type stuff

Here's the first llok at the very rough site I've pulled together in order to link the functionality together. It obviously needs alot more work but hopefully people will see where I'm coming from!


Below is the page which I am using to show where I am with the xml generator. Again very rough (this one particularly so!) bit it's purely for displaying functionality at the moment. You fill in the fields above and then click on generate. The page then displays the generated xml file which is identical to the one which I have to use for the viewer.

New Draft of logo

I had always intended to change the logo as it was somewhat bland before, especially with regards to the font used etc. here's the latest ----------->

Monday morning blues...

After a bit of a panic when thinking about looming dates I decided to take full advantage of my time with Pat this week so that I could have a proper discussion about the direction my project was going. Although I had a good idea of where I wanted to be, it was proving difficult to manage my time effectively in order to get to a stage where I would be happy with what I would have to show at the prototype presentation which is now only three weeks away.

After a lengthy debate (and frustration on both parts!) we seem to have come up with a good plan to see me through the next few weeks which will hopefully see the skeleton of my project come together. Pat has asked me to keep working on my designs so that they don't all pile up so I'm planning to spend a few hours a week for the next while making new flyers, doing a bit of photography and video and stuff I am actually looking forward to doing!

I also must build the basis for my website so that I can add the functionality to it for the presentation. At the moment for this, I'll be worrying about getting it working before I get too bogged down with the look of the site.

Also, Pat has asked for a demo of the touchscreen in action so that she can critique the look of the application before I go any further. So much to do :(

Woops!

Forgot to mention that i will be using my 'log in' and 'create new user' from my java practicals for the user login and registration. Both of these functions are working perfectly for my practical so I'll be implementing these functions in the coming days.

Hard at work...

I am currently working on the generating the xml file for my project. as all data is fed into the viewer via xml, the idea is to allow users to log on to the system and upload their information.

Currently, I have a working html page which takes in the title, description, link url and image from the user. The code then generates an xml output identical to the xml that is needed to feed into the application. My next goal is to get the xml output to save to an external xml file named gallery.xml. Then the first major programming milestaone will be complete.

Didn't think I'd ever get to say that!Things are finally starting to come together in my head....